AaronMcCarthy.com » BMW http://www.aaronmccarthy.com Remember, I do this for me and my sanity! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:12:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 BMW S1000RR on the Dyno: Off the Charts! http://www.aaronmccarthy.com/2009/12/18/bmw-s1000rr-on-the-dyno-off-the-charts/ http://www.aaronmccarthy.com/2009/12/18/bmw-s1000rr-on-the-dyno-off-the-charts/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:40:47 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronmccarthy.com/?p=454 I want one!!

Used to be 180 hp at the back wheel was the result of tens of thousands of dollars of soup-up work: a turbo or nitrous, or just getting your hands on a megabucks works racebike. Them days are over: Motorcycle News, the weekly U.K. publication, just strapped a BMW S1000RR superbike to its dyno, revealing 183 hp at the rear tire. If you think this was a fluke, another dyno run by exhaust manufacturer Akrapovic (say “Ahh-Crop-Oh-Vitch”) showed 185.5 hp!  Read more…

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